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Indonesian
Etymology
Affixed ambigu + -itas, learned borrowing from Latin ambiguitās.
Pronunciation
Noun
ambiguitas (plural ambiguitas-ambiguitas)
- ambiguity:
- (countable) words or statements that are open to more than one interpretation, explanation or meaning, especially if that meaning cannot be determined from its context.
- (uncountable) the state of being ambiguous.
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Further reading
Latin
Etymology
From ambiguus + -tās.
Pronunciation
(Classical Latin) IPA(key): /am.biˈɡu.i.taːs/,
Noun
ambiguitās f (genitive ambiguitātis); third declension
- ambiguity, uncertainty, equivocalness
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “ambiguitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ambiguitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ambiguitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.